1964 in literature

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The year 1964 in literature involved some significant events and new books.

Contents

1 Events
2 New books
3 New drama
4 Poetry
5 Non-fiction
6 Births
7 Deaths
8 Awards

Events

Jean-Paul Sartre becomes head of the Organization to Defend Iranian Political Prisoners(ODIPP).
Michael Moorcock becomes editor of the science fiction magazine New Worlds.
W. H. Auden describes his "Vision of Agape" (June 1933) in his preface to the anthology The Protestant Mystics.
Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer is allowed to circulate legally in the United States by the U.S. Supreme Court three decades after its original publication in France.

New books

Chinua Achebe - Arrow of God
Lloyd Alexander - The Book of Three
Poul Anderson - Time and Stars
Louis Auchincloss - The Rector of Justin
J. G. Ballard - The Terminal Beach
Simone de Beauvoir - A Very Easy Death (Une Mort très douce)
Saul Bellow - Herzog
Thomas Berger - Little Big Man
Leigh Brackett
- People of the Talisman
- The Secret of Sinharat
Ray Bradbury - The Machineries of Joy
John Braine - The Jealous God
Richard Brautigan - A Confederate General From Big Sur
John Brunner
- To Conquer Chaos
- The Whole Man
Sara Bulette - The Splendid Belt of Mr. Big
Edgar Rice Burroughs - Tarzan and the Madman
J. Ramsey Campbell - The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants
A. J. Cronin - A Song of Sixpence
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Len Deighton - Funeral in Berlin
August Derleth editor - Over the Edge
Ralph Ellison - Shadow and Act
Ian Fleming
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- You Only Live Twice
William Golding - The Spire
Ernest Hemingway - A Moveable Feast
Carl Jacobi - Portraits in Moonlight
B. S. Johnson - Albert Angelo
Richard E. Kim - The Martyred
H. P. Lovecraft - At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels
Ruth Manning-Sanders - A Book of Dwarfs
John D. MacDonald - The Deep Blue Good-by, A Purple Place For Dying, and The Quick Red Fox
Sterling North - Rascal
Vladimir Nabokov - The Defense
Jan Pfloog - The Farm Book
Anthony Powell - The Valley of Bones
Mario Puzo - Fortunate Pilgrim
Ellery Queen - And On the Eighth Day
Ruth Rendell - From Doon With Death
Hubert Selby Jr. - Last Exit to Brooklyn
Shel Silverstein - The Giving Tree
Clark Ashton Smith - Tales of Science and Sorcery
Wilbur Smith - When the Lion Feeds
Rex Stout - Trio for Blunt Instruments
Rex Stout - A Right to Die
Leon Uris - Armageddon
Jack Vance
- The Houses of Iszm
- The Killing Machine
- Star King
Gore Vidal - Julian
Irving Wallace - The Man
Raymond Williams - Second Generation
Maia Wojciechowska - Shadow of a Bull

New drama

Brian Friel - Philadelphia Here I Come!
Joe Orton - Entertaining Mr Sloane

Poetry

Main article: 1964 in poetry

Joseph Payne Brennan - Nightmare Need
Leonard Cohen - Flowers for Hitler
Philip Larkin - The Whitsun Weddings
Donald Wandrei - Poems for Midnight
Up The Line To Death: The War Poets 1914-1918 (anthology)

Non-fiction

Eric Berne - Games People Play
Allan Bloom with Harry V. Jaffa - Shakespeare's Politics
L. Sprague deCamp - Elephant
L. Sprague deCamp and Catherine Crook de Camp - Ancient Ruins and Archaeology
Dick Gregory - Nigger: An Autobiography
John F. Kennedy - A Nation of Immigrants (published posthumously)
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Why We Can't Wait
Herbert Marcuse - One-Dimensional Man
Marshall McLuhan - Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man
Evelyn Waugh - A Little Learning

Births

March 7 - Bret Easton Ellis, author
July 3 - Joanne Harris, author
date unknown - Dan Chaon, author
date unknown - Aleksandar Hemon, author

Deaths

January 17 - T.H. White, author
February 3 - Clarence Irving Lewis, philosopher
February 25 - Grace Metalious, writer Peyton Place
April 14 - Rachel Carson, environmentalist author
April 18 - Ben Hecht, screenwriter
May 13 - Hamilton Basso, novelist and journalist
August 3 - Flannery O'Connor
August 12 - Ian Fleming, James Bond author
September 18 - Sean O'Casey, dramatist
November 21 - Leah Bodine Drake, poet
December 21 - Carl Van Vechten

Awards

Nobel Prize for literature - Jean-Paul Sartre

Canada

See 1964 Governor General's Awards for a complete list of winners and finalists for those awards.

France

Prix Goncourt: Georges Conchon, L'Etat sauvage
Prix Médicis: Monique Wittig, L’Opoponax

United Kingdom

Eric Gregory Award: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction: Frank Tuohy, The Ice Saints
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography: Elizabeth Longford, Victoria R.I.
Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry: R. S. Thomas

United States

American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama: Lillian Hellman
Hugo Award: Clifford D. Simak, Way Station
Newbery Medal for children's literature: Emily Cheney Neville, It's Like This, Cat
Pulitzer Prize for Drama: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction: no award given
Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Louis Simpson: At The End Of The Open Road

Elsewhere

Premio Nadal: Alfredo Martínez Garrido, El miedo y la esperanza
Viareggio Prize: Giuseppe Berto, Il male oscuro

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